Let me start this off with: It could have been so much more than what was deployed. Than what I had to sit through for an hour and a half only to find myself hating myself for not taking the previous day as a sign, when they wouldn't let me in to see it as I had forgotten I.D.
There were of course, some good aspects shimmering in the dullness that is Daybreakers. That would be Sam Neil, and a list of eye boggling special effects painted in a fine shade of translucent blue. A setting used primarily as a hook to reel in the audience and shade the horrendous script, and the pitiful acting in an attempt for people to side-step it like a dead body on the footpath.
This movie would have been lost down the hole of unsalvageable sci-fi movies, if it weren't for a certain fellow to whip out his fangs and start acting all mean and repulsive. That is of course the wonderfully talented Sam Neil, descending on a journey through a hellish movie about stereotypical vampires.
I did not feel anything at the end, but disappointment as it seeped into my brain and aggravated the tender hatred which had been brewing from the moment I started to realise I had wasted my $15. (Although, now I'm a little less hysterical)
The story had enough holes and flaws that if it were in fact a ship, it would have sunk as soon as it hit the water, leaving everyone on board to flail about and eventually drown in a sea of their own fractured ambitions. As I said before, this movie *could* have been something fantastic. It could have soared past my anticipation and settled on a throne before my stunned expression, but it only left me feeling cheated, and slightly disappointed by the genre which is horror combined with science fiction in the hopes of birthing an original film child. It did not, it birthed a monster as hideous as the winged creatures in this feature, feeding on the flesh *cough* money *cough*, of helpless human beings. With this delay, there is not much else that could have gone wrong. However there was, a strenuous list of problems I faced whilst trying to sit through Daybreakers, including: Acting, the script, the music score, and a complete lack of professionalism which eventually resulted in a poorly executed film. Yes I understand how incredibly complicated it is to make a movie, let alone one that stands out and reflects on it's own success. But there is a difference between someone with a straight-forward and humble goal when it comes to cinema. Someone who wants to create a terrific piece of art that they will feel proud of once they accomplished their dream. And then there is someone who see's a dollar sign on the horizon of the week their film is to be released. These differences infect the production of a film with a certain mode, a particular point of view from everyone on board the (holey) ship which delivers the movies to our screens.
I saw a little bit of both with Daybreakers, but unfortunately the dollar signs shimmered too brightly than the honest, humble film director, and in this fault, the out-come was initially a bad one.
I would suggest to anyone anticipating this movie, because of it's gloomy set and pale men with fangs, to wait until you can hire it out. There is no difference to a big screen, to your own portable television set when it comes to a bad movie such as Daybreakers.
On a side note, this has to be one of the few vampire movies I have seen, where it did not include half naked ladies sucking the life out of defenceless young men.
There were of course, some good aspects shimmering in the dullness that is Daybreakers. That would be Sam Neil, and a list of eye boggling special effects painted in a fine shade of translucent blue. A setting used primarily as a hook to reel in the audience and shade the horrendous script, and the pitiful acting in an attempt for people to side-step it like a dead body on the footpath.
This movie would have been lost down the hole of unsalvageable sci-fi movies, if it weren't for a certain fellow to whip out his fangs and start acting all mean and repulsive. That is of course the wonderfully talented Sam Neil, descending on a journey through a hellish movie about stereotypical vampires.
I did not feel anything at the end, but disappointment as it seeped into my brain and aggravated the tender hatred which had been brewing from the moment I started to realise I had wasted my $15. (Although, now I'm a little less hysterical)
The story had enough holes and flaws that if it were in fact a ship, it would have sunk as soon as it hit the water, leaving everyone on board to flail about and eventually drown in a sea of their own fractured ambitions. As I said before, this movie *could* have been something fantastic. It could have soared past my anticipation and settled on a throne before my stunned expression, but it only left me feeling cheated, and slightly disappointed by the genre which is horror combined with science fiction in the hopes of birthing an original film child. It did not, it birthed a monster as hideous as the winged creatures in this feature, feeding on the flesh *cough* money *cough*, of helpless human beings. With this delay, there is not much else that could have gone wrong. However there was, a strenuous list of problems I faced whilst trying to sit through Daybreakers, including: Acting, the script, the music score, and a complete lack of professionalism which eventually resulted in a poorly executed film. Yes I understand how incredibly complicated it is to make a movie, let alone one that stands out and reflects on it's own success. But there is a difference between someone with a straight-forward and humble goal when it comes to cinema. Someone who wants to create a terrific piece of art that they will feel proud of once they accomplished their dream. And then there is someone who see's a dollar sign on the horizon of the week their film is to be released. These differences infect the production of a film with a certain mode, a particular point of view from everyone on board the (holey) ship which delivers the movies to our screens.
I saw a little bit of both with Daybreakers, but unfortunately the dollar signs shimmered too brightly than the honest, humble film director, and in this fault, the out-come was initially a bad one.
I would suggest to anyone anticipating this movie, because of it's gloomy set and pale men with fangs, to wait until you can hire it out. There is no difference to a big screen, to your own portable television set when it comes to a bad movie such as Daybreakers.
On a side note, this has to be one of the few vampire movies I have seen, where it did not include half naked ladies sucking the life out of defenceless young men.